A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 21, 2019
![Firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo, known as 'snake wrangler', shows a copperhead rat snake that he caught, at a fire station in Bangkok, Thailand.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7295df43-a02c-45ef-9286-c3c0b543ce62_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo, known as 'snake wrangler', shows a copperhead rat snake that he caught, at a fire station in Bangkok, Thailand.
![Couples dance during a show before the finals at the yearly Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 20, 2019.](https://gdb.voanews.com/45a5051b-778b-4aca-b045-78b2071650b5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Couples dance during a show before the finals at the yearly Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 20, 2019.
![Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the wedding ceremony of Hannah Halbershtam and Menahem Nachum, the son of the Rabbi of the Nadvorna Hasidic dynasty, in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug. 20, 2019.](https://gdb.voanews.com/5da07fc5-824f-46f0-9d0c-03f4f0b646f3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the wedding ceremony of Hannah Halbershtam and Menahem Nachum, the son of the Rabbi of the Nadvorna Hasidic dynasty, in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug. 20, 2019.
![A blind-folded gamer collects as many foam objects as possible as he hangs from the ceiling on the first day of Europe's digital games fair, Gamescom, in Cologne, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e9e4b772-bf8b-4abd-bc69-f3906a714316_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A blind-folded gamer collects as many foam objects as possible as he hangs from the ceiling on the first day of Europe's digital games fair, Gamescom, in Cologne, Germany.